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Clinton's campaign intensifies its criticism of Comey's decision to announce the reopening of the Clinton email investigation.
On October 28, 2016, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress revealing that the Clinton email investigation was being at least partially reopened, due to newly discovered emails. This was immediately leaked to the general public.
One day later, Clinton comments, "It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election. In fact, it's not just strange. It's unprecedented. And it is deeply troubling."
Robby Mook (left) and John Podesta at Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. (Credit: Brooks Kraft / Politico.)
Her campaign chair John Podesta says, "Twenty-four hours after that letter was sent, we have no explanation why. No-one can separate what is true or is not because Comey has not been forthcoming with the facts." He suggests that "by providing selective information, [Comey] has allowed partisans to distort and exaggerate to inflict maximum political damage." He declines to say whether Comey should be retained as FBI director if Clinton wins.
Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook says that Comey "owes the public the full story or else he shouldn't have cracked open this door in the first place."
By contrast, Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesperson Michael Short says, "The Clinton campaign was happy to praise Director Comey when it was politically convenient, but now that the FBI has found thousands of new emails pertinent to their investigation, they're attacking him and mischaracterizing his letter to Congress." (Bloomberg News, 10/29/2016)
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Republicans applaud Comey's announcement regarding the FBI's discovery of new information relevant to the Clinton email investigation.
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Prominent Republican politicians react to FBI Director James Comey's announcement that the Clinton email investigation has been at least partially reopened due to the discovery of more emails in the possession of her aide Huma Abedin.
Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Reince Priebus says, "The FBI's decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be. … This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law."
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R) says, "Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame. She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information." He argues that she should no longer be allowed to receive classified briefings. (The New York Times, 10/28/2016)
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The State Department will release all of Clinton's work-related emails recovered by the FBI.
In late 2014, Clinton sorted her emails into what she and her lawyers deemed work-related and personal, and then deleted over 31,000 of the "personal" emails. In the FBI investigation into her emails that concluded in July 2016, it was reported that "several thousand" of the personal emails were recovered or found through other people having copies, and many of these actually were work-related.
In a court filing, the State Department reveals that it is planning to release all of the emails it decides are work-related. The emails will be given to Judicial Watch, who have a number of on-going Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits related to Clinton's emails. However, it is unknown just how many emails were recovered and how many of those are work-related. It also is unknown how soon they will be released. Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Reince Priebus urges the department to release the emails before the November 2016 presidential election. (The Hill, 8/16/2016)
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The Justice Department won't pursue an indictment against Clinton, ending the FBI's Clinton investigation.
Loretta Lynch holds a press conference on June 29, 2016 to explain her private meeting with Bill Clinton at the Arizona airport. (Credit: ABC News)
One day after FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not give the Justice Department a recommendation to indict Clinton, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Justice Department agrees with Comey and will not pursue the indictment. Comey did not publicly discuss Clinton's former aides, but Lynch says there will not be any indictments of her aides either. She also announces that this closes the investigation into Clinton's email practices during her tenure as secretary of state.
Lynch says, "Late this afternoon, I met with FBI Director James Comey and career prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State. I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation."
On July 1, 2016, Lynch said she would accept whatever recommendations Comey and her top prosecutors would give after it was discovered she'd had a meeting with Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, several days earlier.
Lynch's announcement comes one day before Comey is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee, in order to explain his decision to not recommend any indictments.
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Reince Priebus criticizes Lynch's decision, saying, "By so blatantly putting its political interests ahead of the rule of law, the Obama administration is only further eroding the public's faith in a government they no longer believe is on their side." (Politico, 7/6/2016)
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Republicans criticize Clinton after she is interviewed by the FBI.
Hours after the FBI interviews Clinton as part of their Clinton email investigation, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says, "It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. What she did was wrong!"
The Republican National Committee (RNC) issues a statement after the interview, saying that Clinton "has just taken the unprecedented step of becoming the first major party presidential candidate to be interviewed by the FBI as part of a criminal investigation surrounding her reckless conduct." (The New York Times, 7/2/2016)
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Clinton's comment in a November 2010 email "I don't want any risk of the personal being accessible" could become an issue in the 2016 presidential election.
RNC spokesman Michael Short (Credit: LinkedIn)
The email undercuts Clinton's claim that she used a private email account and private server for "convenience." This email was not included in the 30,000 work-related emails Clinton turned over in late 2014.
One unnamed "Clinton ally" says, "If Donald Trump didn't have some major problems right now, I'd be worried. It basically sums up that she was aware of what was happening. It's yet another headache for us."
RNC (Republican National Committee) spokesperson Michael Short says: "The fact that such a key email, which contained damning information about her use of a private server, was not turned over casts doubt on the notion that this may have been an oversight and raises questions about what other work-related emails may have been deleted or inappropriately withheld."
An unnamed "former senior aide to President Obama who supports Clinton" says Clinton's email controversy in general "gives Trump something he can hammer her on. It's something that the Republican base can actually rally behind. It adds fuel to the fire. Anytime there's another drip, voters are distracted from whatever dumb thing Trump is saying so it's not helpful. The more things that come out, the more it highlights the larger trust problem [with Clinton]."
Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, says the controversy is the "continuing story that plagues the Clinton campaign. The great danger is to her credibility because this has gone on for a long time and there are various incompatible details about why she did the things she did and it reminds people that they have been for decades been suspicious of the Clintons." (The Hill, 6/24/2016)
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Sharp Divide in Race for Governor
By George Bridges , October 01, 2014 12:01 AM
By Dan Hortsch
Whoever wins the election for governor on Nov. 4 will make Oregon political history.
Gov. John Kitzhaber, 67, the Democratic incumbent and former emergency room physician from Roseburg, is already serving an unprecedented third term in Salem. Now he's trying for a fourth.
Republican Dennis Richardson, 65, a state representative from Central Point, is serving his sixth two-year term in the Oregon House. He is campaigning to be the first GOP governor in 28 years.
Older voters have a major stake in this election. Issues include retirement income and how to use revenue from a reduced medical expense tax deduction affecting residents 62 and older.
AARP Oregon is also concerned about ways to help older people find employment if needed, "age in place" in their homes, and have access to services such as in-home care that help them maintain their independence.
Each campaign responded to the AARP Bulletin by email.
Retirement savings. In 2013 the Legislature created the Oregon Retirement Savings Task Force to explore ways to help workers in the private sector save for retirement. Nearly half of Oregonians are not covered by a retirement plan at work, said Jerry Cohen, AARP Oregon state director.
Kitzhaber, who signed the bill creating the savings task force, supports allowing employee contributions to a "state-managed, optional retirement plan" similar to a college savings plan. Changes in labor mobility, he said, mean that "our retirement savings practices ... and policies need to further evolve to reflect this change."
Richardson, who voted against the legislation, said that it began as "one of the most dangerous bills" in the session before it was reduced to a task force proposal. "The intent was to create a government mandated retirement program that employers were forced to participate in that would be managed by the state." The task force still could produce such a plan, which Richardson calls "a terrible idea."
Medical tax deduction. The Legislature last year decided that taxpayers age 62 and older no longer can deduct medical expenses for an entire household, regardless of age. A more limited deduction, for those 62 and over only, took its place. That left the issue of how much of the increased revenue should be spent on programs for the older population.
During this year's session, the Legislature allocated $13.3 million of the $26 million in new revenue to senior and disabled transit, long-term care provider training and public guardian and conservator support. Kitzhaber, who signed the bill, said he expects the rest of that money, set aside for now, to strengthen support services, and that additional resources in the future will cover such services.
Richardson opposed the medical expense changes as "unfair adjustments to medical deductions" for older people. If the state continues to take away part of the medical deduction, "then we need to spend [that revenue] on programs that directly benefit them," including mental health, caregiver training and special needs.
He wants current increased revenue devoted to such support and is concerned that future legislative sessions might not continue some funding.
Livable communities. Kitzhaber said he reinvigorated the Governor's Commission on Senior Services in 2011 to explore such issues. Helping seniors stay in their homes, he said, "is both cost-effective policy and the right thing to do."
Richardson said the growth rate of the older population will stretch social resources "like never before" and cited the importance of Oregon Project Independence, which supports people staying in their homes.
For more information on state and federal candidates' positions, go to the voter guide at aarp.org/yourvote. AARP does not endorse candidates, contribute to campaigns or favor political parties.
Dan Hortsch is a writer living in Portland.
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Police stop capital-bound protesters
They were on their to participate in a protest against Ravi Pillai
February 10, 2021 08:24 pm | Updated 08:24 pm IST - KOLLAM
A group of persons, who were on their way to Thiruvananthapuram to participate in a protest against NRI businessman B. Ravi Pillai, were taken into custody by the Kollam East police here on Wednesday.
The bus from Oachira with nearly 60 protesters was stopped at Chinnakkada around 8 a.m. and the protesters were released in the evening. According to the police, action was taken as a preventive measure as another group had staged a protest in front of Mr. Pillai's home in Kollam last month.
Reportedly, the protest was organised by a collective, all of them expatriates working with NSH Corporation, who alleged that they were terminated from service without any benefit and the company was owned by Mr. Pillai.
"Around 500 persons from 12 States were fired from the company without any reason. We had conducted a press meeting in Thiruvananthapuram and the Secretariat march was announced earlier. We were taken into custody as part of a malicious plan," said a protester.
Meanwhile, RP Group representatives said that NSH Corporation was a company owned by a Saudi citizen and at present Mr. Pillai had no connection with it.
"Mr. Pillai had served as the managing director of the company till 2014 and after that, he was not associated with the company. Some persons are deliberately trying to tarnish the image of RP Group and its chairman Mr. Pillai. When they staged a protest in Kollam on January 30, we had asked for documents proving they were employees of RP Group and none of the protesters could provide that so far. The Kollam city police and the Crime Branch are investigating the case," said Anantha Krishnan, administration manager of RP Group.


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 Clarissa Kiste as Maria
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People's Vote march: who? why? where?
More protests will take place in central London on Saturday, with at least hundreds of thousands of People's Vote campaigners expected to march through the capital as part of their call for a second referendum on Brexit.
What is the People's Vote?
The People's Vote is a campaign group made up of more than 700,000 supporters and 20,000 activists calling for a second referendum on Brexit.
The campaigners are demanding either a confirmatory vote on the deal the government has agreed with the European Union or for a repeat of the 2016 referendum.
The campaign has attracted the support of celebrities such as Sir Patrick Stewart, Natasha McElhone and Delia Smith, who have helped to organise transport to bring thousands of people to Westminster for tomorrow's march.
Why are they marching?
The march, titled 'March Together for the Final Say', could be the group's final protest against the current state of play in the Brexit process. Huge numbers are expected to descend on the capital this Saturday.
Following a crucial week of tense Brexit negotiations, 'Final Say' organisers said: "The march from Park Lane to Parliament will deliver a message loud and clear to the Government and MPs that they should trust the people, not Boris Johnson, to solve the Brexit crisis."
Tomorrow also marks the first day Parliament has sat on a Saturday in nearly 40 years, during which MPs will debate and vote on an amendment whether or not to delay bringing Boris Johnson's deal forward.
I'm from an ex mining village in the North East 'Brexit Heartlands'. Never been to London in my life.
On Saturday I'll be spending my only childfree day this year, marching for a #PeoplesVote
Who's with me?
— Pauline Hardman (@PaulineHardman2) October 14, 2019
I still don't think it'll go through Parliament but…If it does….
I just want to say how sorry I am for helping to bring this absolutely unnecessary shower of crap on you all.
And I'll fight till my dying day to rejoin. #PeoplesVote #RevokeA50 #StopBrexit
— Andy Martin. (@Andymartin1175) October 17, 2019
Where are they marching?
At noon groups are encouraged to meet between Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner stations on Park Lane. From here, they will travel to Parliament Square.
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We'll take a single essay by Mary-Louise Parker—"Dear Daddy"—as a point of departure for a prompt-embedded conversation about the development of characters in the pages of true stories and the power of the epistolary memoir as both a craft tool and a final product.
How do we develop scenes stemming from histories that are not ours? How do we move a character ahead in time? How do we use others in our work to also develop ourselves?
You will leave the webinar with new tools and strategies that will broaden your perspective and fortify your craft. We'll also take a look at how Parker's essay evolved from its original appearance, in Esquire, to its appearance in the pages of her memoir-in-letters, Dear Mr. You—an exercise that will offer helpful self-editing tactics.
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